14
2012
Angels Likely To Trade An Outfielder, Mets May Be A Fit
An article by 
Danny Knobbler of CBSSports.com is reporting via Twitter that the Angels are “very likely” to trade one of their outfielders now that Hamilton is in the fold. Here is Knobbler’s Tweet below.
The Angels signing of Hamilton leaves them with a surplus of outfielders in Trout, Bourjos, Morales and Trumbo. That is five potential starters for just four spots if you include the DH spot. The Angels still would like to add another front-line starting pitcher due to the injury concerns around C.J. Wilson (bone spurs) and the newly acquired Tommy Hanson (shoulder).
Knobbler suggests that Bourjos and Trumbo are the most likely candidates to be moved, and both players probably have more value that Kendrys Morales at this point. Although reports yesterday suggested that the Mets would not be interested in Trumbo.
Can someone explain to me why the Mets would not be interested in a 26-year old right handed power hitter who slugged 29 home runs in 2011 and 32 in 2012? He plays corner outfield which is what the Mets need, and he is not arbitration eligible until 2014, and will be under the teams control until the end of 2016. Bourjos is 25 years old and falls under the same window as Trumbo regarding team control.
About the Author: Dan Valis
I am a staff writer for Mets Merized Online. I am a Mets team analyst with a focus on the minor league system, as well as the major league club. I am a lifelong New Yorker who was born and raised to be a Mets fan. The ups and downs of being a Mets fan is what makes following this team so much fun, but at times so frustrating. You can follow me on Twitter @BgAppleMetsTalk.
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It may be that he’s a right fielder in the mold of Lucas Duda and they actually want someone who won’t give the centerfielder a heart attack covering the vast expanse of CitiField ground between the two bookends.
+10
It makes too much sense not to be in one Trumbo.
It Figures they like Boujos more than Trumbo….
Boujos hit .220 last year….
Trumbo hit .268….
We can’t be giving away Cy Young players for guys that can hit now can we?
LOL
It’s the same thinking that led them to consider adding a LHB near ST when they already knew they had a shortage of RHB….
Whatever would appear to be the correct move they seem to favor the opposite…
I suspect they are working on a new book about how anti-logic works since Beane got most of the credit in the Moneyball book.
Trumbo is a lousy defensive corner outfielder and Bourjos is the best defensive centerfielder in the game. come on now
“Bourjos is the best defensive centerfielder in the game. come on now”
Who can’t hit for $#!T!
What was our problem in the second half?
Defensive errors in the OF or lack of offense?
Tell me what this .220 hitter is going to do about that?
Good defense is only worth having if the guy is at least an average hitter.
Otherwise the defensive good he gives is offset by his black hole in the lineup.
by that logic lucas duda is better than peter bourjos. I think everybody’s overrating trumbo and underrating bourjos.
also, there’s a big difference between good defense and best defense in the game
Yeah whats the diffrence 3 runs a season?
You can get that in a single game if the guy can hit!
Although reports yesterday suggested that the Mets would not be interested in Trumbo”
Lmao, what?????? I guess it is true… Beggars can be choosers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Lmao….
yankee troll
And his response would be Oakland Troll….
Dod you really want to go down that path?
DiPoto also said at the Winter Meetings that the Angels were set with position players.
Apparently Dickey trade talks are heating up
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Andy Martino of the New York Daily News hears that the Mets had “intense” trade talks Thursday with the Rangers, Blue Jays and Orioles regarding R.A. Dickey.
The Angels have also been previously listed as players for Dickey.
We haven’t heard the Orioles mentioned as suitors of Dickey for a while, but Martino says they’re “serious players.” FOX Sports’ Ken Rosenthal has reported that the Mets have an acceptable offer on the table for the knuckleballer, but they’re holding out for a better one. A trade of the reigning NL Cy Young winner seems very likely at this point.
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https://twitter.com/MartinoNYDN/status/279670757636853760
Who do the Orioles have?
Manny Machado SS/3B
Dylan Bundy SP
Kevin Gausman SP
and nothing else after that….
All of whom they wouldnt trade for Dickey
good things come to those who wait. Now the market is coming the mets as the despicable alderson predicted.
butt out metsie
Screw You Ray!
It’s a free country and if you can’t take the heat of the other side speaking , I suggest you go watch cartoons in the living room and leave the Kitchen!
Could be Gose and Arencidia or D’Arnaud, Trumbo deal, or Olt and Martin, Thats tough to choose from. Gose and D’Arnaud is probably the best package to get, but it would be fum to watch Trmb bombs in citifiled
Toronto vs Baltimore
Texas vs LA Angels.
Kind of what Sandy wants, isnt it?
SRT, you have a fan in the chat box: http://metsmerizedonline.com/chat/
Bayonne Mets Fan “srt has officially become REALLY F*cking annoying at her absolute refuseal to deny ANY …ANY wrongdoing by Alderson. She is in a world of her own completely unrealistically off the charts how she excuses Alderson from EVERYTHING. Nobody else does that”
I know he is banned from commenting but pretty pathetic that he is sitting in the sewer of the site talking to himself about you.
Also pretty pathetic that you would call Bay pathetic then copy/paste what he said and post it here but…………..who am I to judge o_O
Why? Doesn’t she have the right to know and defend herself. I am not the one hiding. I imagine if TRS was lurking and talking smack about you, you would like to know. Wouldn’t you?
Thats what Email is for….
Thanks Salty…but don’t even waster your time with him. I certainly won’t be bothered.
You don’t know what you’re dealing with, with a person like that. Look what happened today in CT.
YA know SRT lets keep the CT stuff out of it, it will only inflame things more. I would really like to see this guys pivot moving on from being so obsessed with you.
Agree. Which is why I ignore him. Not fair to this site and its posters.
Plus, learned a long time ago you never really know people, you only think you do……
Youre looking to stir things up thats why….If you really wanted to let her know he was talking about her wouldnt you direct your message at HER????
As in a reply to one of her comments so she can receive it???hmmmm??
Rather than comment under a new post where you know everyone will see it. Or better yet tell her over at the place that they call “The desert”…
Face the facts you were looking to stir something up (non baseball related)and watch it blow up…
And to answer your question NO…..I wouldnt care if TRS said something about me behind my back…He doesnt know me personally…so why would I care???
Not sure why you’re even involved in this.
Because Bayonne can’t be here to respond to his name being brought up?
Then maybe Bayonne ought to stop bringing up names of folks who aren’t in the sandbox at the moment to respond to his personal insults. He’s got no one to blame but himself that he’s banned here.
Accountability….something many here like to throw out that the FO has none of. Works the same for folks who post here as well.
Oh he is responding in the chat room, don’t worry about that one bit.
And this is exactly why a cool function of this website got taken away. People would run in there and talk smack about people hopeing they would be in their own little cliq and not being see. I would like the chat back, but if this crap keeps going on then it never will.
Yea if I said it at RDM then people would be whining that I brought MMO up over there. The only person that stirred things up was the person lurking in the shadows talking about people. He has a personal issue with this person and there is nothing wrong with being accountable for what they said. Don’t want to see this crap anymore? ME neither. So why don’t you tell the person you are defending to stopping personally going after SRT. Maybe he could get unbanned eventually and stick with baseball, because when he keeps it on target he has good things to say.
LOL…children playing in that sandbox again, huh?
What we might gain with a trade many of us feel would not compensate from what we lose from our heart. Of course that is foolish sentimentality, however, there are times when foolish sentimentality is more important than other things.
Manipulative guy, that R.A. is, knowing how to get on the good side of the fans for his own selfish reasons. If he had any real concern for us fans he would take Sandy Alderson lessons Oh, if R.A. had you only been a person with an attitude problem, it would make the question of extending him or trading him you much easier for many of us.
HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!! Dickey just played his hand apparently
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Joelsherman1 Heard Dickey will not do extension with #bluejays which could be what is slowing talks with Tor #Mets
https://twitter.com/Joelsherman1/status/279688885884305408
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Trumbo I’m down but a back up catcher no freaking thanks.
One outfielder is not going solve our problems and win you games, pitching is what wins you games. This is going to turn out like a Tom Seaver trade in the end. There strength and ace of our staff and they’re going to let him walk away. Shame on them, oh and maybe they will sign a 199 BA in Olivo give me a brake, what a joke. WE THE FANS DESERVE SOME ONE LIKE DICKEY